Human Rights Watch says video footage circulating on social networks of a recent civilian massacre in Burkina Faso appears to ...

On Tuesday, the well-known political activist and journalist Idrissa Barry was arrested by men claiming to be gendarmes in ...

Burkina Faso, which means “land of honest men,” is a small, very poor, landlocked country in Western Africa, home to over 20 million people. A former French colony, it gained independence as Upper ...

Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been linked to a "gruesome" massacre in a western city that left dozens dead this week, Human Rights Watch ...